Democracy for Vancouver

The George W. Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently.

Two key US senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according to the source, but their projected New York Times op-ed piece has yet to appear.

The source, a retired US career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state still active in the foreign affairs community, speaking anonymously, said last week that the US plans an air strike against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The air strike would target the headquarters of the IRGC’s elite Quds force.

Hmm, where have I heard of the IRGC before? Oh, yes….

(b) Sense of Senate.–It is the sense of the Senate–
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(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;

(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies;

(5) that the United States should designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists, as established under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and initiated under Executive Order 13224…

That was your Senate giving Bush an opening to fly his air strikes through.

And who voted for this Kyl-Lieberman Amendment?

Akaka, Alexander, Allard, Barrasso, Baucus, Bayh, Bennett, Bond, Brownback, Bunning, Burr, Cardin, Carper, Casey, Chambliss, Clinton, Coburn, Cochran, Coleman, Collins, Conrad, Corker, Cornyn, Craig, Crapo, DeMint, Dole, Domenici, Dorgan, Durbin, Ensign, Enzi, Feinstein, Graham, Grassley, Gregg, Hatch, Hutchison, Inhofe, Isakson, Johnson, Kohl, Kyl, strong>Landrieu, Lautenberg, Levin, Lieberman, Lott, Martinez, McConnell, Menedez, Mikulski, Murkowski, Murray, Nelson, Nelson, Pryor, Reed, Reid, Roberts, Rockefeller, Salazar, Schumer, Sessions, Shelby, Smith, Snowe, Specter, Stabenow, Stevens, Sununu, Thune, Vitter, Voinovich, Warner, and Whitehouse.

McCain co-sponsored the Amendment, but didn’t turn up to vote.

Don’t let Obama off the hook - he didn’t bother to show up either.

So, tell me, Senator Reid: How will the Dems condemn Bush’s unprovoked attack on Iran when a majority of the Democrats in the Senate voted for it?

And don’t think that’s not part of Bush’s play here; remember, it’s all about winning the campaign. The soldiers can go piss up a rope - how many of them would vote for Bush III this time around anyway?

Bush and Cheney have put the Dems in a corner again, and the dumbasses didn’t even see it coming.

There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.

Disclaimer: Not valid for Democrats or candidates running for President.

McCain will be laughing all the way to Minneapolis.

We are so fucked.

Not to mention the innocent Iranians who get collateralized.